This is a great song! Billie Piper or Billie as she was known as back then came from NOWHERE in 1998 to debut at number 1 in the UK makin’ her the youngest artist ever to go straight to number 1. She was only 15 at the time.
Nowadays Billie is better known for her actin’ where she starred as Rose in Doctor Who and as the lead in Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. She went on to have 7 top 10 singles includin’ 3 number 1s. She married Chris Evans at one stage too. There were rumours of her bein’ cast in X-Men Days Of Future Past at one stage.
Another song of the day, another Billy song. Today it’s Uptown Girl by Billy Joel which was released in 1983. It’s about a workin’ class fella tryin’ to woo a wealthy girl. The song went to number 3 in the USA and number 1 in the UK, Ireland, Australia and loads of other places. Billy Joel really was the man at that time.
The main character in the video was played by Christine Brinkley who married Billy Joel later. The song was recorded by Westlife who had Claudia Schiffer in the video!
We continue our run of songs by people called Billy with this tune by Billy Ray Cyrus who happens to be the father of Disney star Miley Cyrus. I remember watchin’ a programme about this song years ago and the thing about it was that it wasn’t a hit until they decided to put the little dance to it and then it suddenly just took off all over the world.
The song went on to start a line dancin’ craze that was huge in the 1990s and for some reason seems to still be a thing in Northern Ireland!
I hated this song when it was out coz it was just the same thing over and over again. It was released in 1994 but didn’t catch on until 1995 when it went to number 1 in the US dance charts and number 6 in the UK. Billy-Rae was German which I didn’t know until now! She didn’t really have any other hits after this but has released over 20 singles so she’s been busy. She actually started as a cabaret singer in Berlin and she’s back doin’ that now after her earlier success. Ya kinda wonder what happens to 1 hit wonders afterwards. Someone should make a programme about that!
Ah this is probably one of my favourite Boyzone songs. I know Shane Lynch well. He was me mentor in the All Ireland Talent Show. The song was the theme song for Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie and Rowan Atikinson appears in the video as Mr Bean. The song went to number 2 in the UK and Ireland and was a hit in other countries around the world. The Japanese loved Boyzone.
The song led to Ronan Keating winnin’ an Ivor Novello award so fair play to him for that. I’m goin’ to press play on this now and dance like Mr Bean!
Oh how I loved this song when I was younger. I was a big Sash! fan. I have all his albums and know the words to all the songs. I used to dance around me room thinkin’ I was only the image of Tina Cousins. I’ve actually met her twice and she was lovely!
The song was a huge hit all over Europe and went into the top 10 in most countries. It hit number 2 in the UK. Sash! Have had 5 number 2 singles in the UK and a number 3 but never a number 1! Their first single Encore En Fois was number 1 in Ireland though. They never had the success in the USA groups like Cascada had either. They’ll definitely feature in Song Of The Day again! I’m off to dance around me room!
This is a big change from Yesterday! It’s Not Unusual was released by Tom Jones in 1965 and was originally meant to be for Sandi Shaw who turned it down because she liked the demo version recorded by Tom and told him to release it. That was nice of her. Elton John played the keyboard on the recordin’ and Lou Reed was in charge of the musical arrangement. The song hit number 1 in the UK and number 10 in the USA becomin’ his first hit there. The song has been covered by everyone from The Supremes to Cher!
I LOVE THIS SONG! I like a lot of Tupac’s stuff but this and California Love are probably me favourites. The song was released on Tupac’s Greatest Hits a few years after he died and used lyrics from a song he recorded in 1992 called I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto and uses a sample of The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby & The Range.
The song did really well around the world but only hit 38 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was nominated for a Grammy.
Ah I like this song. The strokes are American but for some reason I always thought they were English. They just have that sound. The song came from their first album Is This It? and it hit the 20 in the UK and top 50 in Ireland. Actually now that ya look at it, it wasn’t as successful as I thought although it’s been used on loads of adverts and stuff since and NME voted it the 66th best rock song of all time which is nice of them. The Strokes have a new album out at the moment although I’ve not heard anything off it.
Okay this SOOOO has to be a Song Of The Day request too coz I’ve never heard of it. I’ve only ever heard of There Might Be Giants once or twice before and don’t know any of their songs. It’s grand like. Probably not something I’d put on me Windows Media Player. Oh god there’s trivia on YouTube. It’s about a NIGHTLIGHT! SWEET JESUS!
The song is a story of a child's nightlight, told from the nightlight's point of view.
The Longines Symphonette is a hand-held pocket radio, manufactured in the 1960s. It is also a record label which specialized in releasing classic radio programs and multiple-record box sets. Linnell admits, though, "I didn't find out what the Longines Symphonette was until after the song was released," in a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone.
The song's video was directed by Adam Bernstein and filmed inside the New York County's Surrogate's Court and Hall of Records building located at 31 Chambers Street in Manhattan. "I tell people it's my house." - Linnell
Blue Canary is the title of a 1953 song by Vincent Fiorino, which has lyrics on the sadder side about loneliness and comforting but has "happy" music. Also, the 1948 song "Bluebird of Happiness" as performed by Art Mooney (which reminds that, "Though you're deep in blue, you will see a ray of light creep through") may have influenced the line about a "bluebird of friendliness".
Okay I have an idea where this song came from on the list but it definitely wasn’t me. For those of you who are American, the Dixie Chicks wouldn’t be very well known on this side of the Atlantic. I actually couldn’t tell ya any of their songs. Except Goodbye Earl coz it’s written there ^. The video is also below!
On listenin’ to it, it’s actually not a bad song. It’s very country. The girls in the band are very country too. Oh it’s a little story too. I like this!
Five have come back into the limelight recently after they appeared on The Big Reunion on TV. This is one of their slower songs Until The Time Is Through. This is from 1998 which is a little bit scary coz I feel really old. There’s actually only 4 of them in the band at the moment coz one of them left. I don’t know which one coz I didn’t watch it. This is actually far from one of their best songs now that I listen to it but sure the video is nice and I would have given Scott and probably Abs one back in the day.
Gloria Estefan was HUGE in the 80s with her Miami Sound Machine and latin hits. This was their first English language song after they’d had loads in Spanish. It was big around Europe although didn’t do as well in America. The video is very strange with Gloria pretendin’ to jump off a buildin’ and some strange chap dressed up as Doctor Beat. Poor Gloria broke her back later but made a full recovery thank god.
Ah I love Billy Ocean. There’s just something really nice about him. He seems like a lovely man. When The Going Gets Tough is actually originally his song and not Boyzone’s although they did a great version of it. I always like Boyzone and I swear it has nothing to do with Shane Lynch bein’ my mentor on The All Ireland Talent Show. Well a little bit.
I didn’t actually realise Billy was British until I read it there now. The video is great. It has Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas as backin’ singers.
My mother LOVES Rod Stewart although I can’t see why. There’s nothin’ attractive about him at all. He wouldn’t be a pin up in anyway and his hair is AWFUL! He does have some great tunes though that hold their own even to this day. Baby Jane is one of them. The song was a UK number 1 back in the day and was a top 20 in the US and Australia. This sounds like it should be in some 80s advert with glam girls wearin’ LOTS of blusher and big hair! I LIKE IT!
I don’t actually know how this made it on to the Song Of The Day list coz I’ve actually never heard of Maxwell or Ascension so I’m guessin’ when I put it together all those years ago someone requested it and not here it finds itself. That happens sometimes!
There’s not really much about it on Wikipedia only that it reached number 28 in the UK and number 36 in the USA. It sounds like the type of thing you’d get down and dirty with in the bedroom!
We only had Gladys Knight last week and here she is back already with Midnight Train To Georgia. She’s talkin’ about Georgia in the USA and not Georgia that sends strange songs to the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s where Atlanta is. I think that’s where Gladys herself is from. The song was a number 1 in 1973 which was a really long time ago. That’s like 40 years ago now! It sounds like it should be in a movie with Samuel L Jackson in it.
Ah this is a great song. It’s about a girl who gets arrested for bein’ a stripper. See that’s why it’s called Patricia The Stripper. Chris De Burgh has had some great tunes in his time, whether it be Lady In Red, Spanish Train or of course the strangest Christmas song of all time, A Spaceman Came Travelling. He was actually born in Argentina but he’s from County Wexford and of course his daughter Rosanna Davidson (not De Burgh) won the Miss World at some stage. She’s famous for gettin’ into rows with Ryanair and that.
This is a great song and one to sing along to on a drunken night out so grab a few bottles and turn it up! AND WITH A SWING OF HER HIPS…
Oh good god! This is another of those strange songs that sticks in your head for ages! Scatman John and his Scatman came along in 1994 and everyone was goin’ around thinkin’ it’d be gas to go bebababadabo in your face. It wasn’t. I punched people and I was young enough then.
Scatman John was actually an American who had a stutter and started learnin’ scat to help him. That’s what Wikipedia says. I always thought scat was people who liked gettin’ pooed on. Did I make that up?
Scatman John went on to make 3 albums before sadly dyin’ in 1999.
Ah I love this song. I think it was on a Sister Act soundtrack I had one time. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell came together WAY back in 1967 to record Ain’t No Mountain High Enough on Motown and it became a big hit. Dusty Springfield actually wanted to sing it first but the writers said no coz they wanted to get into the Detroit market and the Motown label!
Dianna Ross had her first Number 1 with the song in 1970 and it’s been covered loads of times. Actually Wikipedia says it was done by Whoopi Goldberg and Lauren Hill in Sister Act 2 which I knew! See I do pay attention.
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